Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1882 — Republican Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Republican Ticket.

For Congress. 10th district, MARK L. DeMOTTE, of Porter county. For State Senator for Jasper, Benton and Newton counties. HENRY S. TRAYIS, of Benton county. For Representative, Jasper and Newton counties. WILLIAM W. GILMAN, of Newton county. For Prosecuting Attorney, 30th Judicial Circuit. MATTHEW H. WALKER, of Benton County. Jasper County Rejnbllcaa Met. For Clerk of Circuit Court, JAMES F. IRWIN. For Auditor, GEORGE M. ROBINSONFor Treasurer, MOSES B. ALTER. For Sheriff, JOHN W. POWELL. * For Recorder, THOMAS ANTRIM. For Coroner, FRANK J. SEARS. For Surveyor, LEWIS S. ALTER/ For Commissioner Ist District, A. C. PREVO. For Commissioner 2d District, SAMUEL R. NICHOLS. For Commissioner 3d District, JOHN WAYMIRE.

“The Democratic State Convention agrees to (submission) incase the legislature * * passes them. —“Sentinel” of Oct. 13th. Now that is very graceful nothing. Did' you expect to start a war, as in 1861? Noble party, to submit under compulsion. If the legislature of 1883 passes them it will pass them. Such logic! ba!!

Journalism ought to be respectable, and its influence elevating. Blackguardism is abominable to all veil thinking people. The Republican concedes to its contemporaries the right to differ with it on all questions on which men differ. It i 8 ready and willing at all times to discuss these differences in a spirit and manner becoming to journals of an enlightened community. The Republican will not debauch itself, nor outrage the sense of its readers, by decending to the spirit of blackguardism and billingsgate of its neighbor, the Democratic Sentinel.’ These may answer for argument with the exeditorial staff of that organ, but The Republican will have no part in such dirt throwing, which is offensive to all decent . people, and, therefore, declines to notice the many flings and inuendoes of the ‘Sentinel’ of late.

Dr. Alter, although a candidate for re-election, is tending strictly and personally to the duties as his office. Tax paying for 1881 will close Nov. 6th, ISS2, and although the Dr. rnay not be aide to give his personal attten •lion to the canvass, still we believe the republicans of the county, will not forget him, but, by their ballots in November next, they will say to him, for his faithfulness to duty, “Well i done.”

W hose mistake was it, that the jail cost about one thousand dollars more than it ought? Certainly not the commissioners.

Httnrv S. Travis, Republican candidate for State Senator, closed a week’s canvass in Jasper county last Saturday night, by a speech to the people of. Newton township at Blue Grass school house. Mr. Travis has made a good impression wherever he has spoken, or mingled with the voters of this county Like the party he represents, and the platform on which he st ands Mr. Travis has nothing to apologize for, or to conceal from the people. How different with his' opponent, Mr. Hoover; that gentleman, in his letter published in the Republican last week, says he was nominated “with the expressed undei standing that I would not make public speeches, or hold joint discussions during the pending canvass.” Why was Mr. Hoover’s mouth thus sealed, in advance, by his party caucus? Because he stands upon a platform that commits him to the policy of stifling the voice of the people—a policy which he dare not discuss before the men on whose votes he depends for election.

t The people have a right to know and they expect to know by public declarations of the candidates for legislative offices what their “well defined opinions” are beforehand, and they are not likely to confide so high a trust to one who hides his “well defined opinions” under a bushel of caucus imposed secrecy. Mr. Travis stands on a straightforward declaration of principles. Mr. Hoover stands upon an ambiguous platform, the principal plank of which was framed at the dictation of the liquor league. Mr. Travis goes before the people and tells them plainly and candidly what they may depend upon from him if he be chosen as their senator. Mr. Hoover declines to make his views known, or to tell us what are his “well defined opinions,” of which he boasts. The voters of Jasper county prefer the candid platform and the candid man , to the whiskey league platform and the sealed mouth candidate.

“Will * * any ** of the republican party point out where in their State platform it declares for or against the amendments. We dare them to do it?”—‘Sentinel’. The democratic platform is emphatic against, aud the expression of that party upon a question of a change in the Charter Law was a direct invasion of the sacred rights of individual opinion of its own members, and is a direct insult to every democrat not in sympathy with the whiskey league. The republican party respects the private opinions of its members on non-partizan questions, and to refer the decision of all such questions to the people, unbiased by party issues. The amendments should be voted for at a special election. The Republican party, as a party has“n<s well defined opinion to express/' it can’t vote. The Democratic party assumes to vote all its members and to control the private consciences of all its adherents. The republicans would revolt at such party tyranny but if democrats like it, it is alia matter of taste.